Acting For Stage And Screen - BA (Hons) - Full time

This practical, performance-based course is offered jointly by Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University. It draws on our well-established reputation as a centre for excellence in screen practice-led courses and on Queen Margaret’s expertise in actor training. The course is designed for direct entry to year 3 and provides a distinctive and complementary course of actor training to the canonic conservatoire tradition.

This practical and performance based programme is offered jointly by the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and the School of Arts & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University. This course is aimed at experienced and articulate performers who are interested in taking charge of their own careers. The course will enhance performing skills to industry-standard, while working in a practical, simulated professional environment. The programme recognises that actors may be called upon to perform in a variety of venues, media and styles, and will provide vocational and industry-relevant training through intensive workshops, centred on acting for stage and screen and on the craft, practice and business of performance. It will consolidate and extend existing skills and will ensure that all graduates have a secure understanding of the business they are entering. Given our Edinburgh location, you will be working in some exciting venues, with professional directors and teachers. Students will leave with 'festival-ready' productions that can transfer for showing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and elsewhere, and also with a show reel of screen acting work, a personal business plan and the skills and knowledge to really take charge of your own career development. This course will advance your knowledge of specialist areas in acting, voice and movement and enable you to demonstrate learned performance skills at professional-level standards, in an integrated and creative context. It will also enable you to demonstrate initiative and creativity within the area of acting for stage and screen. You will also gain transferable skills in creative problem solving, planning, leadership, team work and time management. Stage and Screen Actor Various roles in the entertainment industry which require initiative and creativity Producer Managing and launching small theatre companies Theatre Company Manager Arts Administration View Full Screen

What's involved Year 3 Intensive, integrated practical workshops that will enhance your voice, movement and acting skills. Building and sharing a common vocabulary of practice. Semi-public stage and screen production/showing. Extended research and rehearsal in a simulated professional environment. A wide variety of practice-based explorations of acting and directing theory. Business skills for the performing arts, including strategic, financial and market planning and analysis, professional presentation and networking skills, fundraising and small company management skills and leadership skills for the creative industries. Trimester 1 Performance Skills 1 Performance Technique 1 Interpreting text Trimester 2 Performance Skills 2 Performance Technique 2 Leadership in the Creative Industries Year 4 Simulated professional stage and screen productions aimed at the Festival market. Critical approaches to acting and performance. Significantly enhanced technical performance skills, particularly in working with style and heightened/stylised text. Directing and critical thinking. Business planning and presentation skills. Enhanced leadership skills and the opportunity to collaborate in the planning of a Festival season of live and recorded performance projects. Trimester 1 Performance Skills 3 Advanced Production Stage or Advanced Production Screen Trimester 2 Performance Skills for Professional Practice Advanced Production Stage or Advanced Production Screen Across the year Festival Production Throughout both years there will be particular focus on enhancing confidence and communication and deepening the ability to be cogent and articulate about the performance process. Students will be given many opportunities to shape their own study and to focus on areas of strength as well as areas of interest. There is intensive consideration of the possible approaches to screen and stage acting, and to understanding how they might adapt technique to work in new and emerging media and genres.

Requirements at a glanceEntry to the courseTypical year 3 QualificationSubject HNDB in Graded Unit in relevant subject. Ordinary Degree Other entry requirementsAn acting audition and interview Other qualifications and/or experience will be considered on an individual basis. To check the equivalence of your qualification or experience, contact us using the enquiries button.Typical Entry requirements indicate the minimum qualifications with which students are normally accepted. Competition for places varies from year-to-year and achievement of the typical entry requirements does not always guarantee a place.Fees TableFees 2012/132013/14 Scottish/EU£1,820£1,820 Rest of UK £6,500£6,630 Overseas£9,690£10,080 Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.